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Jim Kwik
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May 14 - June 3, 2022
Often when you put a label on someone or something, you create a limit—the label becomes the limitation. Adults have to be very careful with their external words because these quickly become a child’s internal words.
He held up a finger, saying, “Don’t let school interfere with your education.”
It was in that moment that I realized that if knowledge is power, then learning is our superpower. And our capacity to learn is limitless; we simply need to be shown how to access it.
But being limitless is not about being perfect. It’s about progressing beyond what you currently believe is possible.
What I have come to find over my years of working with people is that most everyone limits and shrinks their dreams to fit their current reality. We convince ourselves that the circumstances we are in, the beliefs we’ve accepted, and the path we are on is who we are and who we will always be.
A limit in your Mindset—you entertain a low belief in yourself, your capabilities, what you deserve, or what is possible.
A limit in your Motivation—you lack the drive, purpose, or energy to take action.
A limit in your Methods—you were taught and are acting on a process that is not effective to cr...
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Mindset (the WHAT): deeply held beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions we create about who we are, how the world works, what we are capable of and deserve, and what is possible.
Motivation (the WHY): the purpose one has for taking action. The energy required for someone to behave in a particular way.
Method (the HOW): a specific process for accomplishing something, especially an orderly, logical, or ...
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There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that if we never let our mind wander or be bored for a moment, we pay a price—poor memory, mental fog, and fatigue.
Most of us deal with some kind of work-life situation where we don’t feel comfortable forgoing digital connection for large swaths of time every day.
“Asking the brain to shift attention from one activity to another causes the prefrontal cortex and striatum to burn up oxygenated glucose, the same fuel they need to stay on task,” notes neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin in his book, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.
He argues that short-term memory pathways will start to deteriorate from underuse if we overuse technology.
“Our brain appears to strengthen a memory each time we recall it, and at the same time forget irrelevant memories that are distracting us,” said Dr. Wimber.
Just as there is a physical price to always relying on the technology of the elevator instead of taking the stairs, so is there a price for lazy mental muscles.
Students in the closed laptop condition recalled significantly more material in a surprise quiz after class than did students in the open laptop condition.”10 Because they were engaging their minds in the lecture rather than looking for what the Internet already thought about the subject, they were much more responsive when it was time to reason for themselves.
I call this digital depression, a result of the comparison culture that emerges when we let the highlight reels of the social media feeds of others cause us to perceive ourselves as less than.
As far as most physical functions are concerned, we’re just average. But because of the power of our brains, we are overwhelmingly Earth’s most dominant species.
But before you jump to the conclusion that one environment is “better” than the other and breeds a better functioning brain, I challenge you to reconsider.
If learning is making new connections, then remembering is maintaining and sustaining those connections.
In other words, the belief we might develop in response to forgetting does far more damage than the lapse in memory.
